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what happend at the Boston Tea party really?

Brittish Parliment wanted the Colonists to purchase ta from East india company. Why? And i need to know what has happend in Boston tea party thingg.

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1. The Boston Tea party happened because the British had imposed a heavy tax on tea. The colonialist got tired of paying the huge taxes so they got together and dumped the tea that was on the docks into the bay. The reason Britain had imposed the huge tax on tea in the colonies was because they had to finance their war against the French. The 100 years war between the British and the French was nearly over and had bankrupted both countries.
2. During the colonial times England placed extreme taxes on tea and sugar for America. This was because England was fighting a number of wars and saw that American colonies were flourishing while they were going bankrupt. When the colonists learned of how much they would have to pay for simple things like tea they became angry at English Parliament. the colonies weren't viewed as a part of England, only as colonies therefore they had no say in English Parliament and that included the taxes in America. Eventually the colonists became fed up with the taxes and late one night they snuck aboard a British supply ship and dumped all of the tea, chocolate and sugar overboard in what is now called the Boston Tea Party.
3. upstair is right
4. The British East India Company had a big surplus of tea in its stores, and it got approval to sell the tea in the American Colonies. There was a small tax levied on the tea, but even so it was cheaper than the smuggled tea the colonists had been drinking. That alarmed the local smugglers (John Hancock et al.), who organized the Tea Party to get that bit of competition out of the way. The ground for this small insurrection was laid by the other tax-related issues that had been going on since the Stamp Act. So a bunch of them dressed up like Indians (badly, chances are) so that the Indians would get the blame for their actions, or at least the individuals involved wouldn't be identified. They stole aboard the East India ships and threw the boxes of tea into the harbor. Apparently one member of the party who started stuffing tea into his pockets got thrown in too, to teach him a lesson.
5. this is a long answer The Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767 angered colonists regarding British decisions on taxing the colonies despite a lack of representation in the Westminster Parliament. One of the protesters was John Hancock, a wealthy Bostonian. In 1768, Hancock's ship Liberty was seized by customs officials, and he was charged with smuggling. He was defended by John Adams, and the charges were eventually dropped. However, Hancock later faced several hundred more indictments. The sons of liberty organized a boycott of tea from China sold by the British East India Company, whose sales in the colonies then fell from 320,000 pounds (145,000 kg) to 520 pounds (240 kg). By 1773, the company had large debts, huge stocks of tea in its warehouses and no prospect of selling it because smugglers, such as Hancock, were importing tea from the Netherlands without paying import taxes. In response to this the British government passed the Tea Act, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the colonies directly and without "payment of any customs or duties whatsoever" in Britain, instead paying the much lower American duty. This tax break allowed the East India Company to sell tea for half the old price and cheaper than the price of tea in England, enabling them to undercut the prices offered by the colonial merchants and smugglers.[citation needed] Many American colonists, particularly the wealthy smugglers, resented this favored treatment of a major company, which employed lobbyists and wielded great influence in Parliament. Protests resulted in both Philadelphia and New York, but it was those in Boston that made their mark in history. Still reeling from the Hutchinson letters, Bostonians suspected the removal of the Tea Tax was simply another attempt by the British parliament to squash American freedom. Samuel Adams, wealthy smugglers, and others who had profited from the smuggled tea called for agents and consignees of the East India Company tea to abandon their positions; consignees who hesitated were terrorized through attacks on their warehouses and even their homes.[1]
6. Josh F's answer basically sums it up perfectly!